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Gianni Castiglione

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Vanderbilt Asst. Prof, Biological Sciences, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences

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Had a fantastic visit as the seminar speaker @yale_eeb ! Really stimulating conversations with such down to earth and creative people @Jenn_Coughlan @big_data_kane @TJNear thanks for the invite!

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Excited to have our new paper highlighted AND on the cover in MBE!

Excited to share MBE's first Highlight! Learn how Antarctic icefishes have adapted to see under the ice -- Looking through the Ice: Cold-Adapted Vision in Antarctic Icefish buff.ly/3KCxWPo @giannicast @EvolutionVU @opsinlab @franceshauser @alexvn @UofTCellSysBiol

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Our paper is out! w @HopkinsMedicine We explore how certain ACE2 mutations granting natural resistance to #SARSCoV2 infection will likely never evolve in humans (but maybe in dogs!) journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar….

Doomed by our physiology? @giannicast &co argue that, because of epistasis acting on #ACE2, ancient events in mammalian #cardiovascular evolution determined the host range of #SARSCoV2 millions of years before the current pandemic #PLOSBiology plos.io/3pgprAk

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Birding in Baltimore: Avian Antioxidant Innovations Predate Modern Medicine by 65 Million Years natureecoevocommunity.nature.com/users/385090-g… #behindthepaper


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Adaptation of the master antioxidant response connects metabolism, lifespan and feather development pathways in birds: nature.com/articles/s4146… @giannicast


We found that #Birds have supercharged antioxidants! They lost the master off-switch controlling antioxidant gene expression. This is a major clinical target, which could explain why birds have such long lifespans. Thanks to @LightsOutBalt @NatureComms nature.com/articles/s4146…


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Heavy emphasis on story telling in science coms these days is limitting. Narrative arcs with strong characters that experience dramatic tension/ personal change just doesn't fit so much of what is wonderful. Need other models, like arranging a beautiful bouquet, as well.


Our team at @HopkinsMedicine found that human eyes are susceptible to SARS-Cov-2

ACE2 and TMPRSS2 are expressed on the human ocular surface, suggesting susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv



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Rhodopsins provide a new example showing how evolution's path can be constrained elifesciences.org/digests/35957/…


New eLife paper with @opsinlab "Functional trade-offs and environmental variation shaped ancient trajectories in the evolution of dim-light vision" doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

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We're delighted to announce that SynBio Canada is live! Read the latest #synbio news from Canada and abroad, and join the community at synbiocanada.org


Check out our new paper with @opsinlab demonstrating molecular convergence in the visual system at high altitudes! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ev…

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Beyond thermodynamic constraints: Evolutionary history shapes protein sequence variation biorxiv.org/content/early/…


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🔬 The visionary research being done by @opsinlab provides an interesting glimpse at evolution in action. ow.ly/IPeC30dt3Y4 #UofT

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Read about this neat study in our fresh-off-the-press PNAS paper: pnas.org/content/early/… pic.twitter.com/zXGl8fbbo1 #evol2017


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Fish living in extreme environments adapt ability to see ow.ly/Q9l330cVGnS @UofT @opsinlab @giannicast @franceshauser

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Gianni Castiglione @giannicast on convergent cold adaptation in high altitude catfish vision #evol2017


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@giannicast experimental evidence of nonsynonmous changes do not affect spectral tuning but vision kinetic in high-alt fish opsin #evol2017


First paper published from PhD with @franceshauser @opsinlab @PNASNews - nonspectral adaptation in rhodopsin pnas.org/content/early/…


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